On 3/7/2013 7:21 AM, Francois Labreque wrote:

>> Am 07.03.2013 07:50, schrieb Patrick Elliott:
>>
>>>> More like, "Because lazy". You can name drives under DOS, I think you
>>>> could even do so with a floppy, but then your application has to
>>>> "manually" check to make sure that the name is the same, since they a)
>>>> never added a way to reference, as far as I know, the drive name as a
>>>> means to write to it, and b) the OS doesn't check if the name
>>>> changed on
>>>> its own, as far as I am aware.
>>>
>>> Of course, there is a bloody stupid "DOS" way to do it:
>>>
>>>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47849/refer-to-select-a-drive-based-only-on-its-label-i-e-not-the-drive-letter
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Interestingly, the top answer has /nothing/ to do with DOS whatsoever.
>> (Except of course for the raw fact that drive letters and drive labels
>> are a DOS legacy, and the author chose to call his visual basic script a
>> "bat file" for apparently nostalgic reasons.)
>>
>
> And the second one returns "Bad command or file name", when run from a
> DOS6.1 boot floppy, so it doesn't have much to do with DOS either.  (Not
> that I was expecting it to work...)
>
Great.. Might as well just try to run something via windows scripting 
host, for all that those "solutions" do any good then. At least with 
that you could, in theory, find some way to get around it.

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